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Giveaway Winners Announced for The Solitary House

Posted in Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , on 23 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »

24 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win one of three advanced readers copies of The Solitary House, by Lynn Shepherd. The winners drawn at random are: Aurora who left a comment on February 07, 2012 Debra E. Marvin who left a comment on February 07, 2012 Melissa who left a [...]

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In Celebration of Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday: From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens: Guest blog by Lynn Shepherd, & a Giveaway

Posted in Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 7 February 2012 | 25 Comments »

We are basically a tried and true Janeite, but quietly confess to admiration of another nineteenth-century novelist also born in Hampshire; – Charles Dickens. His style is entirely different than the witty underpinnings of our beloved Miss Austen, but one cannot ignore his fabulous characterizations and amazing plot twists. Today is the bicentenary of Dickens’ [...]

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Follow Friday: The Jane Austen Twitter Project

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , , on 11 February 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Would you like to be part of a new Jane Austen story developing on Twitter? Join the Jane Austen Twitter project in progress. This has to be a first for Twitter! We’re planning a completely new experiment in creative collaboration, and would love you to get involved. The idea is to work together to write [...]

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Upcoming Reading & Writing Challenges, & Literary Blog Events in 2011

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Reading Challenges, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 18 January 2011 | 2 Comments »

There are great reading and writing challenges, and  literary events in the queue around the blogosphere that have come to my attention. So many in fact, that I decided to combine the announcements into one grand post, so here goes. Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration Maria Grazia at My Jane Austen Book Club is celebrating [...]

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Jane Austen and the ‘father of the novel’ – Samuel Richardson

Posted in Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2010 | 16 Comments »

Gentle readers: Last week I reviewed Lynn Shepherd’s new Austen inspired mystery Murder at Mansfield Park. Not only is she an accomplished novelist, she is a distinguished Samuel Richardson scholar with a new book Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, published by the venerable Oxford University Press. Richardson was [...]

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Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 31 July 2010 | 13 Comments »

Mansfield Park is considered (by some) to be the dark horse of Jane Austen’s oeuvre and her heroine Fanny Price intolerable. Poor Fanny. She really gets the bum’s rush in Austenland. The patron saint of the weak, insipid and downtrodden, she is Jane Austen’s most misunderstood heroine. In fact, many dispute if she is the [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for July 2010

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 6 July 2010 | 3 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in July, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd Mansfield Park is considered (by some) to be the dark [...]

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Austen Tattler: News and Gossip on the Net: Issue No 9

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 18 April 2010 | 4 Comments »

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 April 12th – 18th, 2010 Hot News of the Week: New author Jenni James of Northanger Alibi, a modern retelling of Northanger Abbey influenced by Twilight, lands the Austenesque book publicity coup [...]

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